Rwanda: Political Parties Welcome Revised EALA Election Draft Bill
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- 08 Aug 2022
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Rwanda Parliament has started a process of examining a special draft bill governing election of Rwanda members to the East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA) that will allow other political parties to vie for seats in the regional assembly.
The draft bill was presented this August 4, 2022 by the Minister of Local Government, Jean Marie Vianney Gatabazi, who said though urgently needed to pave way for the next EALA elections, the bill has to be discussed in the parliamentary committee before final approval.
The Minister explained that organic law was prepared on grounds to harmonize with the provisions of the Rwandan Constitution of 2003 revised in 2015, by putting into place an organic law relating to election procedures for Rwandan members of EALA instead of being an ordinary law.
Gatabazi said that the earlier bill was limited to allowing only parties in the unity government- the ruling party Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) and other parties – Social Democratic Party- (PSD) and the Liberal Party (PL) to submit members to represent Rwanda at EALA.
There are 11 political organizations (parties) in Rwanda represented in parliament under the National Consultative Forum of Political Organizations (NFPO).
Other parties include: The Ideal Democratic Party (PDI), Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (DGPR), Social Party (PS) Imberakuri, Democratic Union of the Rwandese People (UDPR), Rwandan Socialist Party (PSR), Centrist Democratic Party (PDC), Party for Progress and Concord (PPC), The Prosperity and Solidarity Party (PSP).
“This time around all political parties will be obliged to submit their members to vie for the assembly seats and out of those, the parliament will select six members with the majority votes,” Gatabazi said.
This means that each political organization or political organizations of its coalition represented in the Parliament presents not more than three (3) candidates including at least one (1) woman. Read More…
